Missing Battery Icon on bluefin-dx-hwe:latest

Bluefin
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I recently switched from bluefin-dx-surface:gts to bluefin-dx-hwe:latest on my Surface Book 2. Since the upgrade, I’ve noticed the battery icon is missing from the taskbar/system tray.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far to resolve the issue:

  • installed the Just Perfection GNOME extension and tweaked various settings
  • Attempted to install the surface-linux daemon (surface-dtx-daemon)

Unfortunately, neither of these steps resolved the issue.

To assist with troubleshooting, I’ve included:

  1. Output of rpm-ostree status.
  2. Screenshots showing the missing battery icon.

Is there a workaround for this issue on bluefin-dx-hwe:latest? Or would rolling back to bluefin-dx-surface:gts be the best option for now?

From bluefin-dx-surface:gts 40.20241102

Screenshot From 2025-01-01 18-57-40
Screenshot From 2025-01-01 18-57-401604×898 173 KB

From bluefin-dx-hwe:latest

Screenshot From 2025-01-01 19-00-55
Screenshot From 2025-01-01 19-00-551794×1170 381 KB

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Stick to gts for now since that’s working at least. We’re having issues with surface support: Various kernel/hwe issues supporting Surface/Asus devices · Issue #2051 · ublue-os/bluefin · GitHub

We’re making some progress and have people looking into it though, we’ll see how it turns out!

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Thank you for the update! I’m new to custom images, but I’ve started reading up on building them to better understand the process. I’ve also checked out the image-template you shared and will give it a try. I’d love to contribute to testing Surface builds and help move things forward.